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Afghan runoff election in disarray after challenger pulls out

Nov. 1, 2009
Abdullah Abdullah, the only opponent to President Hamid Karzai, withdraws. He says Karzai had rejected his demand to change the voting infrastructure to avoid fraud. President Hamid Karzai's only challenger today pulled out of next week's election runoff, saying the incumbent had turned down his...
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic